C.P.D. Gwalchmai is a

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club from Gwalchmai in

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. They play in the and with their home games at Maes Meurig. The club is one of Anglesey's most successful football teams, winning nine top division

Anglesey League The Anglesey Football League was a football league in Anglesey, Wales, and was equivalent to the sixth level of the Welsh football league system in North Wales. The champions were promoted to the Gwynedd League. The league also ran five cup comp ...

title, one

Gwynedd League The Gwynedd Football League was a association football, football league at the fifth level of the Welsh football league system in north-west Wales. The league folded in 2020 due to a reorganisation of the Welsh football league pyramid, with many ...

title and major success in different cup competitions reaching 49 finals, winning 26, including North Wales Coast Football Association Junior Cup on three occasions.

History

The club was formed in 1946 and has spent most of its existence playing in the now defunct

, where they were the joint most successful team in the league with nine titles. Previous managers including Bryngwran local William Williams and Paul Owen from Gwalchmai who are two of the clubs most successful managers. Their last Anglesey League title was in 2007–08 when they were promoted to the

. At the end of their second season in that league, they gained promotion to the

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, and finishing the season as Gwynedd League treble winners, landing the league title, Gwynedd Cup and President's Cup, as well as reaching the NWCFA Intermediate Cup and Barritt Cup finals. The club spent six seasons in the top division of the league, finishing mid-table in each season (7th, 9th, 8th, 8th, 7th and 9th respectively). In the summer of 2016 the club folded, citing lack of players and withdrew from the league. The club returned for the 2017–18 season, playing in the Gwynedd League and finishing fifth, before finishing league runners-up the following season and gaining promotion to Division Two of the Welsh Alliance League. In the 2019–20 season, the club finished sixth (on points per game) in a season curtailed by the

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. They then joined the newly formed

North Wales Coast West Football League The North Wales Coast West Football League is a football league in Wales, at tiers 4 and 5 of the Welsh football league system in North Wales, founded in 2020. The league is under the control of the North Wales Coast Football Association. The lea ...

Premier Division for the 2020–21 season, a season which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the club starting the 2021–22 season when amateur football returned to Wales in the summer of 2021. The club hosted several matches during the

2019 Inter Games Football Tournament The 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament was an association football tournament which was held between 15 and 22 June 2019 in Anglesey, Wales. It was organised due to the hosts of the 2019 Island Games, Gibraltar being unable to run a tournament ...

Honours

Leagues

– Champions (1): 2009–10 *

– Runners-up: 2018–19 * Welsh National League Division IIIB (

) – Champions: 1951-52 *

– Champions (9): 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1986–87, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2007–08 *

– Runners-up (13): 1946–47, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1996–97 *

Division Three – Champions: 1978–79

Cups

* North Wales Coast FA Junior Challenge Cup – Winners: 1958–59, 1960–61, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1995-96 * North Wales Coast FA Intermediate Cup – Winners: 2023–24 * North Wales Coast FA Intermediate Cup – Finalists: 2009–10, 2012–13 *North Wales Coast West Premier Cup – Winners: 2022–23 *Cwpan Gwynedd – Winners (1): 2009–10 *Barritt Cup – Finalists: 2009–10 *Dargie Cup – Winners (4): 1960–61, 1982–83, 1996–97, 2000-01 *Elias Cup – Winners (6): 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1988–89, 1996–97, 1997-98 *Elias Cup – Finalists: 2007–08 *

Shield – Winners: 2017–18 *Gwynedd Premier Cup – Winners (1): 2009–10 *J.W Lee Shield – Winners (2): 1992–93, 1995-96 *Megan Cup – Winners (7): 1959–60, 1961–62, 1980–81, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1993–94, 2000-01 *S.K.Williams Shield – Winners (2): 1977–78, 1978-79

References

External links

Official Website
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